Monthly Archives: August 2008

Just found this excellent post on the concept of Tipping. The (opt-in) ‘patronage’ aspect of tipping is important. The challenge is always going to be how to aggregate small amounts of money to avoid drowning in credit card fees. PayPal … Continue reading →

A while ago, Kevin Kelly proposed that all that any artist required for survival was 1000 true fans. He was essentially rebuked by people saying that 1000 true fans is actually a hell of a lot to achieve… and to … Continue reading →

Like an eagle hovering before the kill, I’ve been making circles above my target business model for Ambisonia for a while now. Its not simple. There are so many minor business model tweaks that might have srious impacts. I need … Continue reading →

Here it is put simply. You can stream all content, for free, in AAC or AC3. Just like Youtube. Listen to it as mush as you like. Subscribe for $5/month, and you can download everything, in any format. Purchase credits … Continue reading →

I wish there was a methodology for developing and adjusting business models ‘on the fly’ … like in ‘agile’ software development, where you just start writing code but then ‘stay’ loose and flitter back and forth until you find the … Continue reading →

Note to self: have a look at this site, youlicense.com. If I understand right, they act as an intermediary for licensing music, whether it be a commercial license or other. If they had some kind of API that ambisonia could … Continue reading →

The aim is to provide a fast website which can, if/when necessary, scale to serve hundreds or thousands of concurrent users. Doing this is non-trivial. Scaling websites is something that I do not know much about, except that its a … Continue reading →